On 29-30 October the first SmartX IoT hackathon took place in Berlin hosted by Sourcebook and 4 Berlin-based textiles and flexible electronics labs.

The first cohort of 13 smart textiles SME's from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden pitched their current products/prototypes and their challenges of overcoming technical or market entry barriers.

The 2nd SmartX regional workshop was organized in conjunction with Centexbel’s “Textile Wearables in the world of IoT” conference in Liège on 1st October 2019.

About 50 participants got their first insights into the upcoming open funding call and the how SmartX project will support smart textiles projects that tackle the 3 target markets: protection & sports, health and well-being, and industrial applications.

The Textile ETP coordinated project SmartX - European Smart Textiles Accelerator - has participated in the first Regional Workshop that took place in Biella, Italy on 30th September hosted by Po.In.Tex. Some 35 participants attended workshop where the details of the upcoming first SmartX call were presented by Lutz Walter.

Smart X should boost smart textiles innovation in Europe with a specific focus on developing full smart textiles manufacturing value chain in Europe to help drive promising prototypes faster to market.

During the 3 years project, we will launch 3 funding calls expecting to support up to 40 individual projects with total funding of € 2.4 million.